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Great Bear Lake (North Slavey: Sahtú; French: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada ( Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border ), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world . [ 4 ]
Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), [2] and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Great Slave Lake is slightly smaller, with an area of 28,568 square kilometres (11,030 sq mi) and containing 2,088 cubic kilometres (501 cu mi) of water, although it is significantly deeper than Great Bear. [18] The third major lake, Athabasca, is less than a third that size with an area of 7,800 square kilometres (3,000 sq mi). [15]
It caught fire and sank on Great Slave Lake and was replaced by the Speed II which ironically later suffered the same fate. Speed II: Gasoline schooner (14 m (45 ft) long) operated by Northern Traders Company on Great Slave Lake c. 1927, and later by Northern Waterways Limited on Great Bear Lake 1932–1933. It caught fire and sank on Great ...
The site, which covers 12 hectares, is located next to Echo Bay in the shore of Great Bear Lake. [ 1 ] The mine was 270 miles by air north of Yellowknife and approximal 850 miles north of Edmonton, [ 2 ] on the edge of the Arctic Circle [ 1 ] and therefore only accessible by small charter aircraft equipped with floats or skis, or larger charter ...
Images from NASA underscore the dramatic change in water quality at the Northern California tourist destination. Clear Lake is in Lake County about 120 miles north of San Francisco.
Great Bear River hosts a number of aquatic species, with some of the most notable being Lake trout and Lake whitefish.Other animals regularly found in the Great Bear River include various fish species such as Arctic grayling, Burbot, Cisco (lake herring), Northern Pike, Nelma (inconnu), Walleye, Fourhorn sculpin, Slimy sculpin, Round whitefish, Longnose sucker, Sphaeriidae molluscs, and ...